When We Are Free

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Stori am gariad a gwytnwch wedi'i hadfer o rhwng llinellau hanes anghofiedig. Naratif aml-genhedlaeth: tair menyw ar draws amser a lle wedi'i hangori gan set o lythyrau o wersyll crynhoi Ravensbrück.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

A story of love and resilience recovered from between the lines of forgotten history. A multi-generational narrative: three women across time and place anchored by a set of letters from Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Archebu o flaen llaw

Os nad yw’r teitl hwn wedi’i gyhoeddi eto, gallwch ei archebu o flaen llaw. Byddwn yn dosbarthu eich eitem cyn gynted ag y bydd ar gael gan y cyflenwr ac wedi cyrraedd atom. Gall dyddiadau cyhoeddi newid.

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Dosbarthu

Byddwn yn dosbarthu eitemau sydd mewn stoc o fewn 3 diwrnod gwaith, fel arfer drwy Royal Mail Tracked 48. Ar gyfer archebion o flaen llaw, byddwn yn dosbarthu’r eitem o fewn 3 diwrnod gwaith ar ôl ei derbyn gan ein cyflenwr.

Dispatch

In-stock items will be dispatched within 3 business days, usually by Royal Mail Tracked 48. For pre-orders, we’ll dispatch within 3 business days of receiving the item from our supplier.

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Alys Einion is the author of Inshallah (2014), Ash (2018) and of several academic books, chapters and articles. Born and brought up in the South Wales Valleys, with a librarian for a mother, her first and longest lasting love was books, and she made up her mind to become a novelist at the age of seven. A midwife and senior academic, equalities and queer activist and polymath, Alys was the Editor-in-Chief of the Practising Midwife Journal for four years, and also teaches academic and creative writing. An avid reader of fiction of all genres, Alys is also a pagan, vegan, and an inclusive feminist. When she is not reading, writing or working, Alys likes to cook, walk and camp in the beautiful Scottish wilds with her partner, and swim in the sea and lochs. Alys now lives in Scotland with her adult son and enough books to finally qualify as a library.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

When Dr Beth Ayres becomes the archival custodian of Laura Jane Day , her University’s first female Professor, she is struck by the troubling absence of Laura on public record, but a mysterious reference to letters from Ravensbrück sparks a quest to uncover the truth. A working class woman who fought against the odds to study at Oxford, Laura blazed a trail as a classicist, before a mysterious reversal finds her teaching Humanities at a polytechnic in a small Welsh town in the 1970s. Beth’s search leads her to a cache of letters written in German by Helena - a communist and inmate of Ravensbrück concentration camp for women - to her lover Ruth in England. As Beth pieces together the women’s suppressed histories, her research becomes an act of activism, culminating in her decision to publish the letters and Laura’s last work in an act of solidarity and defiance.